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The lack of diaspora support is a problem. Most of the G+ mass migration has gone to diaspora (the pluspora pod in particular), and I don't expect this to change much since diaspora's UI is familiar feeling compared to G+. After all, early G+ was a diaspora clone.

I am posting THIS comment from hub . toot . cat, which may or may not propagate everywhere. We shall see. It's possible that Zotum's diaspora federation is broken. I've noticed federation from Hubzilla and Friendica pods seems to be pretty brittle and breaks down not infrequently with software upgrades and such.